What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation

What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation

There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature of psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet the task is central in arranging the means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into the experimental scientist’s purview. As scientific objects, states su...

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Main Authors: Hazel Morrison, Shannon McBriar, Hilary Powell, Jesse Proudfoot, Steven Stanley, Des Fitzgerald, Felicity Callard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Social Studies of Science 2019-03-01
Series:Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Subjects:
experiments
mind wandering
operational pliability
psychology
qualitative interviews
task
Online Access:https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/274/169

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